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This little JavaScript will take an event or date in the future and compare it to the current date, then display how many days until that date/event occurs.  Pretty neat!  Lots of uses...  (Marriage countdown, till school's out countdown, etc)<br><hr>
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var date = new Date("January 1, 2003");
var description = "the year 2003";
var now = new Date();
var diff = date.getTime() - now.getTime();
var days = Math.floor(diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
document.write("<center><h3>")
if (days > 1) {
document.write(days+1 + " days until " + description);
}
else if (days == 1) {
document.write("Only two days until " + description);
}
else if (days == 0) {
document.write("Tomorrow is " + description);
}
else {
document.write("It's " + description + "!");
}
document.write("</h3></center>");
// End -->
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<p>Simply click inside the window below, use your cursor to highlight the script, and copy (type Control-c or Apple-c) the script into a new file in your text editor (such as NotePad or SimpleText) and save (Control-s or Apple-s).  The script is yours!<br><br></font></td></tr>
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&lt;!-- ONE STEP TO INSTALL DAYS TILL DATE:

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var date = new Date("January 1, 2003");
var description = "the year 2003";
var now = new Date();
var diff = date.getTime() - now.getTime();
var days = Math.floor(diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));
document.write("<center><h3>")
if (days > 1) {
document.write(days+1 + " days until " + description);
}
else if (days == 1) {
document.write("Only two days until " + description);
}
else if (days == 0) {
document.write("Tomorrow is " + description);
}
else {
document.write("It's" + description + "!");
}
document.write("</h3></center>");
// End -->
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